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I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

Ben Stiller

I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Thinking Translate
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
BEN STILLER

Hockey Play Skates
It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
BEN STILLER

Humorous People Real
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
BEN STILLER

Country Flirting Fun
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
BEN STILLER

Film Hollywood Use
I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
BEN STILLER

Needs Shining Wind
I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
BEN STILLER

Actor Knows Thinking
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER

Career Movie Way
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
BEN STILLER

Laugh Laughing Make People
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
BEN STILLER

Essence Moisture Wetness
I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
BEN STILLER

Ideas Mom Reality
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
BEN STILLER

Being Good Life Looking More Real
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
BEN STILLER

Wanted Way Writing
As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
BEN STILLER

Dream Kids Successful
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
BEN STILLER

Cruise Running Thinking

I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

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I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

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